'Big Miracle'

. Perhaps that’s the “miracle” of which the title speaks. John Krasinski, taking care not to stray too far from his Office persona, stars as Adam Carlson, a Barrow, Alaska, TV newsman dreaming of the big time when a local boy (Ahmaogak Sweeney) arrives with a story that just might get him there: On the eve of their annual migration, a trio of grey whales have become marooned under the Arctic Circle’s fast-forming ice sheet. Incapable of making the four-mile trek to open seas without running out of air, they cling to a shrinking hole in the ice,...

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The Woman in Black

Release Date: 3 February 2012 (USA) Runtime: 95 min Director: James Watkins Writers: Susan Hill (novel), Jane Goldman (screenplay)Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer and Ciarán Hinds Review A horror flick stuck in the limbo between cinematic life and death by boredom. There isn't much of a twist to The Woman in Black's haunted house tale: man goes to a creepy, old house, runs into an angry ghost, and mayhem ensues. That standard...

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'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'

"[the film] runs its course quickly without ever leaving a moment to reflect on how ridiculous it is."It’s hard for me to judge a movie like Journey 2: The Mysterious Island too harshly because I am not representative of its intended audience. A pre-teen or fifth-grader may not be dissuaded as I was by the blindingly hurried pace, plot discrepancies or absence of any character development while watching Brad Peyton’s (Cats and Dogs: The Revenge...

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'Chronicle'

Chronicle, a dark sci-fi thriller about teenage superheroes, is a “found-footage” film, and it counts as one of the rare instances in which in which the increasingly prevalent – and increasingly maligned – technique is appropriately deployed, and not merely a cheap gimmick for manufacturing tension. The story begins with Andrew (Dane DeHaan), a pale, saturnine lad, switching on a camera and declaring to his drunken father, who fumes outside his bedroom door, that he intends to “film everything.” And so he does. Narrating in a gloomy, nasal drone,...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Release Date: 12/16/2011                                                             Genre: Action, Mystery Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris REVIEW 2009’s Sherlock Holmes found unexpected synergy in the pairing of Robert Downey Jr.’s impish charm...

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